General Secretary Xi Jinping’s “Belt and Road Initiative””The extraordinary significance of the initiative
Xue Rongjiu
2013In the autumn of 2011, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed“Jointly build the Silk Road Economic Belt21Century Maritime Silk Road”'s initiative. Its goal is to transform the world's opportunities into China's opportunities, transform China's achievements into the world's opportunities, and promote the common development of countries along the "Belt and Road" and even the world. Over the past three years, the construction of the “Belt and Road” has grown from scratch, from point to point, and has achieved progress and results beyond expectations, demonstrating the extraordinary significance of the initiative.
World Historical Heritage Showing Chinese wisdom
The Silk Road is a product of the development of human history. From ancient times to the present, the Silk Road has always been the axis of world movement. The Silk Road is the birthplace of four major civilizations, the gathering place of three major religions, and the origin of multi-ethnic cultures. The Silk Road was officially designated as a World Cultural Heritage by UNESCO.
China has made outstanding contributions in the historical process of the Silk Road. Nearly 10,000 cultural relics in the Tang West Market Museum in the ancient capital Xi'an depict the "Silk Road scroll" of ancient China's exchanges with Central Asia, West Asia, and Europe; in the Quanzhou Museum in Fujian, you can see the splendor of Chinese porcelain on the ancient Maritime Silk Road, and Zheng He's seven voyages of peace and friendship to the West in the Ming Dynasty. The Silk Road pioneered by China is a w88 road, a cultural road, a peace road, and a friendship branch. It has promoted the development of harmonious civilization and commerce and strengthened communication and connections between different civilizations.
The contemporary “Belt and Road” runs through the Asian, European and African continents, with the active East Asian economic circle at one end, the developed European economic circle at the other, and hinterland countries with huge development potential in the middle. Carrying out connectivity in this region, improving w88 and investment levels, promoting international production capacity and manufacturing cooperation, and deepening international division of labor will not only promote the60The economic development of many countries and regions will also benefit the economic development of the world.
In order to realize the Chinese dream and promote the development of the world as a whole, General Secretary Xi Jinping assessed the situation and made a decision in2013put forward the initiative of jointly building the "One Belt and One Road", giving it a new look based on the idea of the ancient "Silk Road"21The youth of the century has become a glorious road to lead and create the future of the world, showing his foresight, great man's temperament andWisdom.The Chinese people are proud of it and the world is inspired by it.
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Along the “Belt and Road”60Approximate population of multiple countries44billion, the total economic volume is approximately21Trillions of US dollars, each accounting for 1% of the global total63%and29%, total foreign w88 accounts for 1% of global w8830%Many.
The "One Belt, One Road" initiative complies with the requirements of countries along the route and has profound historical origins and humanistic foundation. It can combine the interests and development of the rapidly developing Chinese economy with the countries along the route; it provides opportunities for the development of countries with different levels of development, different cultural traditions and different governance models.
After the initiative, get it quickly100Positive response and support from many countries and international organizations.2016Year11month17On the 13196th day of the month, the “One Belt, One Road” initiative was written into Article 1 for the first time71Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly.2017Year3month17Day, first load“Building a community with a shared future for mankind”Concept, calling for strengthening regional economic cooperation through the construction of the “One Belt, One Road” initiative.
2017Year5month14Sunday15Held in Beijing on the 15th and sponsored by China”One Belt, One Road”International Summit Forum discussed the summit theme of “strengthening international cooperation, jointly building the ‘Belt and Road’, and achieving win-win development”.
Yes28heads of state and government accepted the invitation from President Xi Jinping to attend the forum, as well as from110Officials, scholars, entrepreneurs, financial institutions, media and other people from all walks of life in various countries1200Many people attended the summit. Among them, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the President of the World Bank, and the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund attended the roundtable summit.
400Many years ago, Italian missionary Matteo Ricci came to China via the Maritime Silk Road. After many twists and turns, he arrived in Beijing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty at that time, and brought a map of the world. Four centuries later, through the Beijing International Summit Forum, China has transformed the epoch-making "One Belt, One Road" initiative into a world consensus.
China takes the initiative The results benefit the world
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As of now, there are40Many countries and international organizations have signed cooperation agreements with China. The Ministry of Transport of China has signed cooperation agreements with countries along the route130Multiple bilateral and regional transport agreements involving railways, highways, water transport, civil aviation, and postal services.
Interconnection is advancing rapidly. Marked by the construction of China-Pakistan, China-Mongolia-Russia and other economic corridors, a number of early gains have been made in infrastructure and other fields. The China-Europe train runs through Europe and Asia, the Hungary-Serbia Railway and the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway are under construction, China—The ASEAN Information Port is progressing smoothly, and Gwadar Port has officially opened.
Production capacity cooperation is fully promoted. China is close20countries carried out mechanized production capacity cooperation, pioneering China—A new model of cooperation with Kazakhstan; Chinese companies are already along the route20Established in multiple countries56economic and w88 cooperation zones, with cumulative investment exceeding185$ billion, increased for the host country18Ten thousand jobs.
w88 exchanges are getting closer and closer. The proportion of w88 between China and countries along the Belt and Road in China’s foreign w88 has increased from2011Year24.6%Promote to2015Year25.4%and2016Year25.7%。2016China and countries along the “Belt and Road Initiative””Goods w88 volume reached9535.9USD, China’s direct investment in countries along the route has reached145$100 million.
Financial support is basically in place. China-initiated AIIB opens for operations, with total members reaching70pieces. The first batch of investment projects of the Silk Road Fund have been officially launched, and the actual investment amount allocated has reached53Billion US dollars.
The circle of friends continues to expand. The main body of the "Belt and Road" initiative is the Eurasian continent, and it also extends to relevant countries and regions. China and Australia agreed to further promote the "Belt and Road" initiative and dock it with Australia's northern development plan; China and New Zealand signed a memorandum of cooperation arrangements on strengthening the "Belt and Road" initiative; the "Outline of the Plan for Building the China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor" was launched.
“One Belt, One Road”Initiative Open three times
The “One Belt, One Road” initiative proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping has launched China’s third opening-up to the outside world. The first opening up refers to the opening up to the outside world marked by the establishment of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone. The second opening refers to joiningWTOmarks the full opening of the market into the multilateral trading system. The third opening to the outside world took place afterWTOOpen for deepening on organizational and legal basis. Open and join this timeWTO's opening is different.
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The open field expands. The areas opened up after joining the WTO are in the economic and w88 field. The third opening-up is a deeper, broader and higher-level opening. It is an unprecedented opening up of Chinese capital, technology, standards, personnel, and enterprises to the world. The content has been expanded to finance, interconnection; infrastructure construction; energy cooperation; transportation network communication, etc.
Opening goals raised. The goal of joining the WTO and opening up is to take advantage of the opportunities of economic globalization, accelerate China's modernization, become the world's factory, enhance China's comprehensive national strength, and improve people's living standards. The third round of opening up is to rationalize, promote, and lead an open, inclusive, shared, and balanced economic globalization, to build inclusive, interconnected, cooperative, and win-win international cooperation, and to build a community of interests.
Open rules optimization and sublimation. The opening up after joining the WTO was accepted by ChinaWTORules, applicationWTORules, participationWTOThe formulation of new rules. The third opening-up rules are based on the rules of the multilateral trading system, expanding and deepening, and strengthening China's leadership and innovation in new rules.
Through the third opening-up, we will promote and intensify the intensity of in-depth domestic reforms and lay a solid foundation for further promoting the implementation of the “One Belt, One Road” initiative.
China’s third opening up to the outside world, symbolized by the “Belt and Road Initiative”, will build a more solid development foundation for deepening regional cooperation, create smoother market integration conditions, leverage the strengths of economic globalization, curb the shortcomings of economic globalization, promote the growth of the world economy, and better benefit the world and people of all countries.
